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[Update] Lessons from Dalli scandal: Commission needs stronger ethics and transparency rules around lobbying + Commission answer

Publication date: 
Monday, November 5, 2012
Author: 
Steering committee of ALTER-EU

The Commission has released so little information in the three weeks since the scandal around the resignation of John Dalli, the former EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, broke, that it has - in effect - raised more questions than it has provided answers.

Download full document as pdf: 
Letter to Barroso on Dalli scandal November 2012 Nov 5.pdf
Re Mr Wesselius.pdf
Document types: 
open letters
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To lobby or not to lobby?

Publication date: 
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Author: 
Canard Enchainé

"Comme on l'imagine, les "faux nez" ne sont pas précipités, eux non plus, pour s'enregistrer."

Document types: 
leaflets
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Participation, Ethics and Transparency: What citizens want from Brussels

Publication date: 
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
What citizens want from Brussels
Start date: 
Fri, 2012-11-16 08:45
Location: 
International Press Center, Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi 155, Brussels

The conference is the central event of the ALTER-Citizens project, which strives to create a two-way dialogue and greater trust between European public officials and European citizens, and foster enhanced citizen participation in EU decision-making.

As part of the EU-funded project ‘Accountability, Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation: Citizens have a right to know (ALTER-Citizens)’, Friends of the Earth Europe, Access Info Europe, Health Action International, Spinwatch, Environmental Law Service and Aitec (Association Internationale des Techniciens, Experts et Chercheurs) invite you to a half-day conference on lobbying transparency, ethics regulation, accountability and citizen participation in the European Union (EU) on Friday 16 November 2012.

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Provisional programme EU-Citizens conference
 

Lobbies et Union européenne

Publication date: 
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Author: 
Philippe Antoine
Media title: 
RTBF
Teaser: 

Les lobbies sont-ils les vrais détenteurs du pouvoir dans l'Union européenne. C'est une question légitime lorsque l'on voit leur nombre et l'argent qu'ils dépensent. Une partie de la réponse dans l'enquête menée par Philippe Antoine autour du siège des Institutions bruxelloises.

Link to original article: 
http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/dossier/l-europe-et-vous/detail_lobbies-et-union-europeenne?id=7848738
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Much more than a foot in the door

Publication date: 
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Author: 
Ann Feltham, Campaign Against Arms Trade

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) in the UK has long kept an eye on the cosy relationship between the military manufacturers and the UK government. With 'FoI' they expose what is going on and undermine the cosy relationship between military industry and the government.

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